Despite going on numerous first aid courses, Chloe Lipton said she had never practised CPR on a female manikin A campaigner says she is calling for female manikins to be mandatory in CPR and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If someone appears to be in cardiac arrest, doctors stress the importance of helping. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) Many medical ...

People are less likely to perform CPR on a woman. The American Heart Association is trying to change that. If you suffer cardiac arrest, CPR can double your chance of survival. Yet women who ...

CPR’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions have saved countless lives, but the chest pumps alone may be just as effective during medical emergencies. A Japanese study found that people ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - More and more people are surviving cardiac events, but not women, according to the American Heart Association. Experts say many people, especially men, are afraid to perform ...

Survival rates for Black women are far worse after bystander CPR than for White men, according to a study published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. The study ...

Bystanders are less likely to give life-saving CPR to women having a cardiac arrest in public than men, leading to more women dying from the common health emergency, researchers said Monday.

Automatic chest compression devices are routinely used on Earth by doctors in restricted environments such as emergency helicopter, or where prolonged CPR needs to be carried out over a longer period ...